"In order to write about life first you must live it."

“It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.”

Source : Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

“Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.”

“Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings. What are we going to call good? What are we going to call bad? Good or bad is never our choice, or even the issue.”

Source : Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.47, Tuttle Publishing

“I have died in enough TV and films.”

Source : Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. January 15, 2009.

“The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.”

“I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.”

“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”

“Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.”